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Invest in France Awards Recognize Three Automotive Firms

16 February 1998

Invest in France Awards Recognize Three Automotive Firms

    CHICAGO, Feb. 13 -- ITT Automotive, The Standard Products
Company and Tenneco Automotive will receive the Invest in France
Award during a reception to be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1998 at the
Detroit Club during the week of the SAE International Congress and Exposition
in Detroit.  The Invest in France Award recognizes North American corporations
for their strong commitment to the French business community.
    The event will be presided over by Edward E. Hagenlocker, Vice Chairman of
Ford Motor Company and Chairman of Visteon Automotive Systems.  His Excellency
Jean-Daniel Tordjman, Ambassador at Large, Special Representative for
International Investment, will bestow the awards.
    The following will receive the awards for their respective companies:

    -- Frank E. Macher, President & CEO of ITT Automotive.
    ITT Automotive runs two operations in France: a shock absorbers
manufacturing plant in Villeneuve-Loubet (near Nice) and a braking systems
plant in Tournan-en-Brie (near Paris).  In addition, a new 42,000-square-foot
facility is being built near Creutzwald in Lorraine.  It initially will be
supplying fuel, vapor and brake fluid lines and quick-connect systems to Ford.
Creutzwald is close to manufacturing plants of French and German automakers
and is situated on a major international traffic network to facilitate timely
and economical shipments to other automotive plants throughout Europe.

    -- Ronald L. Roudebush, Vice Chairman & CEO of The Standard Products Co.
    Standard Products employs 1,330 people and operates four manufacturing and
development operations in France, producing automotive sealing systems and
encapsulated window modules for European carmakers: one in the Paris area
(Bezons), two in Normandy (Bolbec and Lillebonne), and one in Brittany
(Vitre).  Standard Products is currently building a new 205,000-square-foot
plant in Bolbec to replace the existing facility.

    -- Thomas E. Evans, President & CEO of Tenneco Automotive.
    Tenneco Automotive employs over 900 people in France in eight operations:
two Tenneco Automotive France plants making Walker parts and accessories near
Laval (Loire Valley); a distribution center in Laval; a company plant
producing exhaust tubes in Etain (Lorraine); four Wimetal manufacturing units
for exhaust systems in St. Jacques de la Lande (Brittany), in Sandouville
(Normandy), in Iwuy (Nord/Pas-de-Calais) and in Wissenbourg (Alsace).

SOURCE  Invest in France Agency